Reclining car-chair.



G. G. TAYLOR.

REOLINING GAR CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZ, 1912.

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G. O. TAYLOR.

REGLINING GAR GHAIR.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 2, 1912.

Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

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CALVIN C. TAYLOR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES H. SO'ARRITT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RECLINING CAR-CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17 1912.

Application filed May 2, 1912. Serial No. 694,765.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN G. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reclining Car- Chairs, of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention relates to adjustable and extensible foot rests used in connection with reclining car chairs, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient structural formation and combination of parts, whereby the latching of the parts at the predetermined inclination is attained in a ready and substantial manner, andwith which the release from the described latched condition is attained in a certain and convenient manner by a simple manual actuation of the foot rest carrier, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a detail plan view of the underframe of a car chair having the present foot rest mechanism applied. Fig. 2, is a detail side elevation of the same, the tubular members of the underframe being shown in section, and illustrating the two extended or active positions of the foot rests. Figs. 3 and 4, are detail side elevations illustrating the latching mechanisms in different positions during a releasing of the foot rest parts. Fig. 5, is a detail transverse section on line mm, Fig. 6. Fig. 6, is a detail side elevation illustrating the foot rest parts in a contracted and inactive position.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the tubular horizontal members, and 2 the arm carrying brackets of the underframe of a car chair, such as described in detail in my companion application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 694,764, filed May 2, 1912.

3 are bridge bars spanning the tubular members 1 and providing a pivotal support for the hereinafter described vibratory latch bars or levers.

4 are counterpart reversely disposed skeleton frames or housings of a rectangular form and provided on their upper surfaces with pivot eyes 4 by which they are journaled on the tubular members 1, aforesaid, to be capable of a tilting adjustment as required in effecting different inclinations of the present foot rest mechanisms.

5 are intermediate frames individual to the skeleton frames or housings 4, aforesaid, and adapted to slide or telescope therein. Said intermediate frames are provided with the usual offset shoulders 6 adapted to engage cross rails 7 of the frame or housing 4. to lock the pair of frames in an extended condition.

8 are foot rests or pads mounted in any usual manner at the free or outer ends of the intermediate frames 5 aforesaid, preferably in the combined pivotal and longitudinally shiftable manner shown, so as to be capable of being moved into a compact condition when not in actual use.

9 are looking studs arranged on the respective sides of the frames or housings 4, and preferably formed as portions of lateral confining loops or eyes 10, by which the hereinafter described vibratory latch bars or levers are guided and held to place.

11 are the vibratory latch bars or levers heretofore referred to, and which are pivoted to the bridge bars 3 aforesaid, and have upwardly extending arms between which an actuating spring 12, common to bot-h arms, is arranged and adapted to impart t0 the lower portions of the lovers a yielding tendency toward their individual locking studs 9. At their lower ends the latch bars or levers 11 are recessed on the sides adjacent to the studs 9 to form upper bearing shoulders 13, and lower stop lugs 14, as shown. The shoulders 13 are adapted to engage the stop lugs 9 to lock the frames or housings 4 and their accessories in the inclined position illustrated to the left in Fig. 2, of the drawings.

15 are gravity pawls pivoted to the sides of the latch bars or levers 11, and having their lower ends forked to form central bearing recesses or cavities adapted for operative engagement with the looking studs 9, during the operation of effecting a release of the shoulders 13 from their locking engagement with the said studs 9, and which operation is effected in the following manner: The foot rest carrying frame 4 is moved to a greater degree of inclination, to carry the locking studs 9 downward, and permit the gravity pawls 15 to automatically move into place above the same, in manner illustrated in Fig. 3. The frame 4 is now moved toward a level plane, and with the bearing recesses in the lower ends of the gravity pawls 15 in engagement with the locking studs 9, as the frame 4 moves into said lever plane, the gravity pawl 15 operates as intermediate struts, in manner indicated in Fig. 4, to push the latch bars 11 and their bearing shoulders 13 free fro-m the locking studs 9, and permit the movement of the frame 4 and its accessories into a horizontal plane, ready for a subsequent adjustment into the ordi nary inclined position first referred to.

Having thus fully described my said invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a reclining car chair, the combination of a chair frame, a foot rest housing pivoted to said chair frame and provided on its side with a locking stud, a locking lever pivotally supported on the chair frame and having a locking shoulder for engagement with said stud to hold the foot rest housing in an inclined position, and a gravity pawl pivoted on said locking lever, the lower end of said pawl having a forked formation and adapted to engage the locking stud and effect a release of said stud from the shoulder aforesaid by a manual actuation of the foot rest housing, substantially as set forth.

2. In a reclining car chair, the combination of a chair frame, a foot rest housing pivoted to said chair frame and provided on its side with a lateral guide eye one member of which constitutes a locking stud, a looking lever pivo-tally supported on the chair framevand having a locking shoulder for engagement with said stud to hold the foot rest housing in an inclined position, and a gravity pawl pivoted on said locking lever and adapted to engage the locking stud and eii'ect a release of said stud from the shoulder aforesaid by a manual actuation of the foot rest housing, substantially as set forth.

3. In a reclining car chair, the combination of a chair frame, a foot rest housing pivoted to said chair frame and provided on its side with a locking stud, a locking lever pivotally supported on the chair frame ment with said stud to hold the foot rest housing in an inclined position, and with a stop lug at its lower end to limit movement of the locking stud, and a gravity pawl pivoted on said locking lever and adapted to engage the locking stud and effect a release of said stud from the shoulder aforesaid by a manual actuation of the foot rest housing, substantially as set forth.

4. In a reclining car chair, the combination of a chair frame, a foot rest housing pivoted to said chair frame and provided on its side with a lateral guide eye one member of which constitutes a locking stud, a looking lever pivotally supported on the chair frame and having a locking shoulder for engagement with said stud to hold the foot rest housing in an inclined position, and with a stop lug at its lower end to limit the movement of the locking stud, and a gravity pawl on said locking lever and adapted to :engage the locking stud and efiect a release of said stud from the shoulder aforesaid by a manual actuation of the foot rest housing, substantially as set forth.

5. In a reclining car chair, the combination of a chair frame, a foot rest housing pivoted to said chair frame and provided on its side with a lateral guide eye one member of which constitutes a lockingstud, a looking lever pivotally supported on the chair frame and having a locking shoulder for engagement with said stud to hold the foot rest housing in an inclined position, and

with a stop lug at its lower end to limit the movement of the locking stud, and a gravity pawl pivoted on said locking lever and adapted to engage the locking stud and effect a release of said stud from the shoulder aforesaid by a manual actuation of the foot rest housing, substantially as set forth.

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 29th day of April 1912.

CALVIN C. TAYLOR.

WVitnesses:

CHARLES F. MILLER, PAUL E. LESCHER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

